Word: diana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision was reached two years ago, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Harold Macmillan was his Minister of Defense. When Macmillan himself became Prime Minister last January, he gave the job of carrying out the decision to Duncan Sandys (Churchill's son-in-law, though he and Diana recently separated). The trouble was that Britain's missiles program, like its aircraft design, was lagging badly. Ten weeks ago, Sandys (pronounced Sands) took hat in hand, went off to Washington to ask for U.S. missiles. His success was signed and sealed at Bermuda...
...MUCH, TOO SOON (380 pp.)-Diana Barrymore & Gerold Frank-Holt...
Sometime Actress Diana Barrymore is the latest to try this therapeutic method, following in the footsteps of Singer Lillian Roth, a former alcoholic who found fame, fortune and reform through the catharsis and the cash she gained by writing the bestselling I'll Cry Tomorrow. Diana Barrymore's lengthy confession is, if anything, more exhibitionist-and written with the help of the same public ghostwriter, onetime Newsman Gerold Frank, who took down Diana's outpourings in 2,000 pages of notes. What partly redeems the book is that it throws some light on one of America...
...patient whose heart is about to be bared and repaired is Mr. Arcularis, originally the sad, gentle hero of a taut, understated Conrad Aiken short story which first appeared in T. S. Eliot's Criterion in 1932. Fourteen years later, dramatized with the help of British Actress-Writer Diana Hamilton, it achieved a four-week run in London. Now, still haunted by what the play might have been, Pulitzer Prizewinner Aiken has performed the dramatizing operation all over again, this time singlehanded, and with excellent results...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Maxwell Anderson's Star Wagon, with Ed die Bracken as a man who invents a time-annihilating machine, assisted by Diana Lynn, Billie Burke, Jackie Coogan...